Joe Lopez turned his attention to pastor Neil Schori, who told the jury Stacy Peterson said Drew Peterson coached her to lie about his whereabouts.

“He was put in a weird position,” Lopez said. “He had to bring a chaperone. Something's going on that no one's telling us about.

“Objection,” Will County State's Attorney James Glasgow said.

“Sustained — the jury will disregard that comment,” Burmila said.

Undeterred, Lopez continued to mock Schori's testimony.

“Starbucks. The church of the moment, where he has his clients come so they can cry in front of everyone.”

Then he turned his criticism to Kathleen Savio's divorce attorney, who testified that Stacy asked if she could help her intention to divorce Peterson if she threatened to tell police how Peterson killed Savio.

“(Smith) comes in here grinning like a Cheshire Cat, laughing,” Lopez said. “Then, during a break, he's sitting there talking to the water pitcher, like it's Wilson from the movie. Laughing, laughing at the state's case, just laughing.”

1:50 p.m. 'All the rats come out of the woodpile'

As Joe Lopez began addressing the testimony of Mary Parks, who was a classmate of Kathleen Savio's at Joliet Junior College, Parks entered the overflow room to listen.

Lopez said Parks was untrustworthy and lied about Savio's alleged statements to her that Drew Peterson attacked and threatened to kill Savio.

“You know what they say? When something like this happens, all the rats come out of the woodpile,” Lopez said.

At that, Parks laughed and stood up to leave the overflow room, offering a whispered apology to the sheriff's deputy at the door.

“Sorry,” she said. “He was talking about me.”

1:30 p.m. Savio lied about Peterson, Lopez says

Joe Lopez told jurors the only thing every pathologistin the case agreed with was that they have no way to say exactly when Kathleen Savio was bruised.

“As much as they want to agree and disagree with one another, they all agree about one thing, and that is that you can't date a bruise,” Lopez said. “Nobody know the ages of the bruises in this case, and nobody knows what caused the bruise. They are speculating as to the cause, and that's because it's not a homicide, it's an accident.”

Lopez also said one of the most telling signs that Savio lied about Drew Peterson's threats to kill her that she never told either her best friend and neighbor, Mary Pontarelli, or her boyfriend Steve Maniaci.

“Steve loved her; he adored her, and she never once told him about this,” Lopez said. “You know why? Because it never happened.”

1:10 p.m. Cut was 'as big as the Grand Canyon'

Joe Lopez derided the state experts who opined that the force needed to cause the 1.5 inch laceration to the back of Kathleen Savio's head would not have been enough to knock her out.

“Look at the gash in the back of her head — it's a big as the Grand Canyon,” he shouted. “You could stick your fist in there! Don't you think that could have knocked her out?”

His hyperbole elicited groans from the gallery in the overflow room.

Lopez said the bottom line is that the hearsay testimony is meaningless if the state can't even prove her death was not an accident.

“You know what, if they can't prove it's a homicide, who cares what (Pastor Neil) Schori says, who cares what (divorce attorney Harry) Smith says, who cares what Anna Doman says? It's gotta be a homicide, and they can't prove it.”

1 p.m. Sister made up testimony, Lopez says

At the coroner's inquest after Dr. Bryan Mitchell's autopsy, Kathleen Savio's sister Sue Doman made no mention of the alleged threats Drew Peterson made to kill Savio and make it appear accidental, defense attorney Joe Lopez said.

“What do you think about that?” Lopez asked jurors. “Wouldn’t that be the first thing out your mouth? 'He killed my sister, how could you rule it’s an accident?' (But) she said nothing. You know why? Because she made it up later.”

Further, the state police never questioned Peterson about whether he murdered Savio.

“They never asked him, 'Hey, did you kill your wife?' No, they never asked him. And you want to know why? It's because they knew it was an accident.”

Lopez moved again to the initial autopsy performed by Mitchell in 2004, saying that they found no evidence of injury to the diaphragm — a finding later disputed by Dr. Michael Baden.

“Even their own experts, I told you before, can't agree whether the glass is half empty or half full,” Lopez said. “That's reasonable doubt.... Their own experts can't agree.”